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GENERAL STATISTICS
Year - 1964
Area in acres 7,261
Population (Registrar-General's estimate) 100,910
Number of habitable premises (rate books) 31,467
Number of houses erected during year 438
Rateable value of Borough £6,923,378
Sum represented by a penny rate £28,460
Live Births - male 773
Live Births - female 704
Birth rate per 1,000 population 14.6
Birth rate per 1.000 population (England and Wales) 18.4
Stillbirths - male 5
Stillbirths - female 8
Stillbirths rate per 1,000 (live and still) births 8.7
Deaths - male 616
Deaths - female 494
Death rate per 1,000 population 11.0
Djeath rate per 1,000 population (England and Wales) 11,3
Infant Mortality rate 19.0
Infant Mortality rate (England and Wales) 20,0
Neo-natal Mortality rate 16.2
Perinatal Mortality rate 22.1
Maternal Mortality rate 0.0
VITAL STATISTICS.
POPULATION. The Registrar-General's mid-year estimate of the population
of the Borough for the year is 100,910.
RATEABIE VALUE. The Rateable Value of the Borough for 1964 was £6,923,378
and the sum represented by a penny rate was £28,460.
INHABITATED HOUSES. According to the rate books the number of habitable
houses, flats and shops with living accommodation at the end of the year was
31,467.
LIVE BIRTHS. The number of live births in 1964 was 1,477 as compared with
1,487 in 1963. The birth rate was 14 6 per 1,000 population. The birth rate
will vary, apart from other causes, according to the age and sex distribution
of the population, and to permit of a true comparison:w,ith other areas, the
Registrar-General supplies for each local sanitary authority what is called
the area comparability factor. When this is applied to the Borough birth rate,
the result is 14.9 as compared with the birth rate of 18.4 per 1,000 population
for England and Wales.
The number of illegitimate births was 107 as compared with 104 in 1963.
The proportion of live births which were illegitimate, expressed as a percentage
of the total live births, is shown below for recent years:-
1925 - 29 3 9 1955 - 59 3.8
1930 - 34 3.2 1960 4.4
1935 - 39 2.9 1961 4.9
1940-44 4.6 1962 6.3
19145 - 49 5.1 1963 7.0
1950 - 54 4.0 1964 7.2
Of the total live and still births, 70% occurred in hospital.
STILLBIRTHS. The number of stillbirths in 1964 was 13. The proportion
of still-births per 1 000 total (live and still) births in recent years is
shown below:-
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